In total 6.69m DS consoles were sold (last year that number stood at 11.7m) and 54.84m games. Wii console unit sales hit 4.97m (down from 5.57m) and game sales reached 65.21m units.

For the period up to an including the end of March Nintendo expects to sell 4m 3DS consoles and 15m 3DS games. The company has also revised its Wii software sales prediction by 3m units, though it says that this is due to increased bundling activity with the hardware this Christmas.

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